THAT whereas our Sovereign Lord the King had, by the Advice
and Assent of his Council, for divers weighty and urgent Occasions concerning,
his Majesty, the State, and Defence of the Church and Kingdom of England,
appointed a Parliament to be holden at his City of Westminster;
That Henry Garnet, Superior of the Jesuits within the Realm
of England, (called also by the several names of Wally, Darcy,
Roberts, Farmer, and Henry Philips) Oswald Tesmond Jesuit, otherwise
called Oswald Greenwell, John Gerrard Jesuit, (called also by the
several names of Lee and Brooke) Robert Winter, Thomas Winter,
Gentlemen, Guy Fawkes Gent. otherwise called GuyJohnson,
Robert Keyes Gent. and Thomas Bates Yeoman, late Servant to
Robert Catesby Esquire; together with the said Robert Catesby
and Thomas Percy Esquires, John Wright and Christopher Wright
Gentlemen, in open Rebellion and Insurrection against his Majesty,
lately slain, and Francis Tresham Esq; lately dead; as false Traitors
against our said Sovereign Lord the King, did traitorously meet and assemble
themselves together; and being so met, the said Henry Garnet, Oswald
Tesmond, John Gerrard, and other Jesuits, did maliciously, falsly,
and traitorously move and persuade as well the said Thomas Winter,
Guy Fawkes, Robert Keyes, and Thomas Bates, as the said Robert
Catesby, Thomas Percy, John Wright, Christopher Wright, and Francis
Tresham, That our said Sovereign Lord the King, the Nobility, Clergy,
and whole Commonalty of the Realm of England, (Papists excepted)
were Hereticks; and that all Hereticks were accursed and excommunicate;
and that none Heretick could be a King; but that it was lawful and meritorious
to kill our said Sovereign Lord the King, and all other Hereticks within
this Realm of England, for the Advancing and Enlargement of the
pretended and usurped Authority and Jurisdiction of the Bishop of Rome,
and for the restoring of the superstitious Romish Religion within
this Realm of England. To which traitorous Persuasions, the said
Thomas Winter, Guy Fawkes, Robert Keyes, Thomas Bates, Robert Catesby,
Thomas Percy, John Wright, Christopher Wright, and Francis Tresham,
traitorously did yield their Assents: And that thereupon the said
Henry Garnet, Oswald Tesmond, John Gerrard, and divers other Jesuits;
Thomas Winter, Guy Fawkes, Robert Keyes, and Thomas Bates, as
also the said Robert Catesby, Thomas Percy, John Wright, Christopher
Wright and Francis Tresham, traitorously amongst themselves did conclude
and agree, with Gunpowder, as it were with one Blast, suddenly, traitorously
and barbarously to blow up and tear in pieces our said Sovereign Lord
the King, the excellent, virtuous and gracious Queen Anne, his
dearest Wife, the most noble Prince Henry, their eldest Son, and
future Hope and Joyof England; and the Lords Spiritual
and Temporal, the Reverend Judges of the Realm, the Knights, Citizens
and Burgesses of Parliament, and divers other faithful Subjects and Servants
of the King in the said Parliament, for the Causes aforesaid, to be assembled
in the House of Parliament; and all them, without any respect of Majesty,
Dignity, Degree, Sex, Age or Place, most barbarously, and more than beastly,
traitorously and suddenly to destroy and swallow up. And further did most
traitorously conspire and conclude among themselves, That not only the
whole Royal Issue-Male of our said Sovereign Lord the King should be destroyed
and rooted out; but that the Persons aforesaid, together with divers other
false Traitors, traitorously with them to be assembled, should surprize
the Persons of the most noble Ladies Elizabeth and Mary,
Daughters of our said Sovereign Lord the King, and falsly and traitorously
should proclaim the said Lady Elizabeth to be Queen of this Realm:
And thereupon should publish a Proclamation in the name of the said Lady
Elizabeth; wherein, as it was especially agreed by and between
the said Conspirators, That no mention should be made at the first, of
the alteration of Religion established within within this Realm of England;
neither would the said false Traitors therein acknowledge themselves to
be Authors, or Actors, or Devisers of the aforesaid most wicked and horrible
Treasons, until they had got sufficient Power and Strength for the assured
Execution and Accomplishment of their said Conspiracy and Treason; and
that then they would avow and justify the said most wicked and horrible
Treasons, as Actions that were in the number of those, Quae non laudantur,
nisi peracta, which be not to be commended before they be done: but
by the said feign'd and traitorous Proclamation they would publish, That
all and singular Abuses and Grievances within this Realm of England,
should, for satisfying of the People, be reform'd. And that as well for
the better concealing, as for the more effectual accomplishing of the
said horrible Treasons, as well the said Thomas Winter, Guy Fawkes,
Robert Keyes, and Thomas Bates, as the said Robert Catesby,
Thomas Percy, John Wright, Christopher Wright, and Francis Tresham,
by the traitorous Advice and Procurement of the said Henry Garnet,
Oswald Tesmond, John Gerrard, and other Jesuits, traitorously did
further conclude and agree, that as well the said Thomas Winter, Guy
Fawkes, Robert Keyes, and Thomas Bates, as the said Robert
Catesby, Thomas Percy, John Wright, Christopher Wright, and Francis
Tresham, thereupon severally and traitorously should receive several
corporal Oaths upon the holy Evangelists, and the Sacrament of the Eucharist,
That they the Treasons aforesaid would traitorously conceal and keep secret,
and would not reveal them, directly or indirectly, by Words or Circumstances,
nor ever would desist from the Execution and final Accomplishment of the
said Treasons, without the consent of some three of the aforesaid false
Traitors first in that behalf traitorously had: And that thereupon as
well the said Thomas Winter, Guy Fawkes, Robert Keyes, and Thomas
Bates, as the said Robert Catesby, Thomas Percy, John Wright, Christ.
Wright, and Francis Tresham, did traitorously take the said
several corporal Oaths severally, and did receive the Sacrament of the
Eucharist aforesaid, by the Hands of the said Henry Garnet, John Gerrard,
Oswald Tesmond, and other Jesuits. And further, that the said Thomas
Winter, Guy Fawkes,Robert Keyes, and Thomas Bates, together
with the said Robert Catesby, Thomas Percy, John Wright,Christopher
Wright, and Francis Tresham, by the like traitorous Advice
and Counsel of the said Henry Garnet, John Gerrard, Oswald Tesmond,
and other Jesuits, for the more effectual compassing and final execution
of the said Treasons, did traitorously among themselves conclude and agree
to dig a certain Mine under the said House of Parliament, and there secretly,
under the said House, to bestow and place a great Quantity of Gunpowder
; and that according to the said traitorous Conclusion, the said Thomas
Winter, Guy Fawkes, Robert Keyes, and Thomes Bates, together
with the said Robert Catesby, Thomas Percy, John Wright, and Christopher
Wright, afterwards secretly, not without great labour and difficulty,
did dig and make the said Mine unto the midst of the Foundation of the
Wall of the said House of Parliament, the said Foundation being of the
thickness of three yards, with a traitorous Intent to bestow and place
a great Quantity of Gunpowder in the Mine aforesaid, so as aforesaid traitorously
to be made for the traitorous accomplishing of their traitorous Purposes
aforesaid. And that the said Thomas Winter, Guy Fawkes, Robert Keyes,
and Thomas Bates, together with the said Robert Catesby, Thomas
Percy, John Wright, and Christopher Wright, finding and perceiving
the said Work to be of great difficulty, by reason of the Hardness and
thickness of the said Wall ; and understanding a certain Cellar under
the said House of Parliament, and adjoining to a certain House of the
said Thomas Percy, then to be letten to farm for a yearly Rent,
the said Thomas Percy, by the traitorous Procurement, as well of
the said Henry Garnet, Oswald Tesmond, John Gerrard, and other
Jesuits, Thomas Winter, Guy Fawkes, Robert Keyes, and Thomas
Bates, as of the said Robert Catesby, John Wright, and Christopher
Wright, traitorously did hire the Cellar aforesaid for a certain yearly
Rent and Term: and then those Traitors did remove twenty Barrels full
of Gunpowder out of the said House of the said Thomas Percy, and
secretly and traitorously did bestow and place them in the Cellar aforesaid,
under the said House of Parliament, for the traitorous effecting of the
Treason, and traitorous Purposes aforesaid. And that afterwards the said
Henry Garnet, Oswald Tesmond, John Gerrard, and other Jesuits,
Thomas Winter, Guy Fawkes, Robert Keyes and ThomasBates,
together with the said Robert Catesby, Thomas Percy, John Wright,
and Christopher Wright traitorously did meet with Robert Winter,
John Grant, and Ambrose Rookwood, and Francis Tresham,
Esquires; and traitorously did impart to the said Robert Winter, John
Grant, Ambrose Rookwood, and Francis Tresham, the Treasons,
traitorous Intentions and Purposes aforesaid ; and did require the said
Robert Winter, John Grant, Ambrose Rookwood, and Francis Tresham,
to join themselves as well with the said Henry Garnet, Oswald Tesmond,
John Gerrard, Thomas Winter, Guy Fawkes, Robert Keyes, and Thomas
Bates, as with the said Robert Catesby, Thomas Percy, John Wright,
and Christopher Wright, in the Treasons, traitorous Intentions
and Purposes aforesaid; and traitorously to provide Horse, Armour, and
other Necessaries, for the better Accomplishment and effecting of the
said Treasons. To which traitorous Motion and Request, the said Robert
Winter, John Grant, Ambrose Rookwood, and Francis Tresham,
did traitorously yield their Assents, and as well with the said Henry
Garnet, Oswald Tesmond, John Gerrard, Robert Winter, Thomas Winter, Guy
Fawkes, Robert Keyes, and Thomas Bates, as with the said Robert
Catesby, Thomas Percy, John Wright, Christopher Wright, and Francis
Tresham, in the said Treasons, traitorous Intentions and Purposes
aforesaid, traitorously did adhere and unite themselves: And thereupon
several corporal Oaths, in form abovesaid, traitorously did take, and
the Sacrament of the Eucharist, by the hands of the said Jesuits did receive,
to such intent and Purpose, as is aforesaid; and Horses, Armour, and other
Necessaries for the better effecting of the said Treasons, according to
their traitorous Assents aforesaid, traitorously did provide. And that
afterwards all the said false Traitors did traitorously provide, and bring
into the Cellar aforesaid ten other Barrels full of Gunpowder, newly bought,
fearing lest the former Gunpowder, so as aforesaid bestow'd and placed
there, was become dankish; and the said several Quantities of: Gunpowder
aforesaid, with Billets and Faggots, lest they should be spy'd, secretly
and traitorously did cover. And that afterwards the said false Traitors
traitorously provided, and brought into the Cellar aforesaid, four Hogsheads
full of Gunpowder, and laid divers great Iron Bars and Stones upon the
said four Hogsheads, and the aforesaid other Quantities of Gunpowder:
And the said Quantities of Gunpowder, Bars, and Stones, with Billets and
Faggots, lest they should be espy'd, secretly and traitorously did likewise
cover. And that the said Guy Fawkes, afterwards, for a full and
final Accomplishment of the said Treasons, traitorous Intentions and Purposes
aforesaid, by the traitorous Procurement, as well of the said Henry
Garnet, Oswald Tesmond, John Gerrard, and other Jesuits, Robert
Winter, Thomas Winter, Robert Keyes, Thomas Bates, John Grant, and
Ambrose Rookwood, as of the said Robert Catesby, Thomas Percy,
John Wright, Christopher Wright, and Francis Tresham, traitorously
had prepared, and had upon his Person Touchwood and Match, therewith traitorously
to give fire to the several Barrels, Hogsheads, and Quantities of Gunpowder
aforesaid, at the time appointed for the Execution of the said horrible
Treasons. And further, that after the said horrible Treasons were, by
the great Favour and Mercy of God, in a wonderful manner discover'd, not
many hours before it should have been executed, as well the said Henry
Garnet, Oswald Tesmond, John Gerrard, Robert Winter,Thomas Winter, Robert
Keyes, Thomas Bates, John Grant, and Ambrose Rookwood, as the
said Robert Catesby, Thomas Percy, John Wright, and Christopher
Wright, traitorously did fly and withdraw themselves, to the intent
traitorously to stir up and procure such Popish Persons, as they could,
to join with them in actual, publick and open Rebellion against our said
Sovereign Lord the King; and to that end did publish divers feigned and
false Rumours, that the Papists Throats should have been cut; and that
thereupon divers Papists were in Arms, and in open, publick, and actual
Rebellion against our said Sovereign Lord the King, in divers Parts of
this Realm of England.

To this Indictment they all pleaded, Not guilty; and put
themselves upon God and the Country.

Then did Sir Edward Philips, Kt. his Majesty's
Serjeant at Law; open the Indictment to this effect, as followeth.

The matter that is now to be offer'd to you my Lords the
Commissioners, and to the Trial of you the Knights and Gentlemen of the
Jury, is Matter of Treason; but of such Horror, and monstrous Nature,
that before now,

The Tongue of Man never deliver'd,
The Ear of Man never heard,
The Heart of Man never conceited,
Nor the Malice of hellish or earthly Devil ever practised.

For, if it be abominable to murder the least;
If to touch God's Anointed be to oppose themselves against God;
If (by Blood) to subvert Princes, States and Kingdoms, be hateful to God
and Man, as all true Christians must acknowledge:
Then, how much more than too too monstrous shall all Christian Hearts
judge the Horror of this Treason; to murder and subvert

Such a King,
Such a Queen,
Such a Prince,
Such a Progeny,
Such a State,
Such a Government,
So complete and absolute,

That God approves,
The World admires,
All true English Hearts honour and reverence,
The Pope and his Disciples only envies and maligns?

The Proceeding wherein, is properly to be divided into
three general Heads.

My self am limited to deal only with the Matter of Declaration,
and that is contain'd within the Compass of the Indictment only.
For the other two, I am to leave to him to whose Place it belongeth.
The Substance of which Declaration consisteth in four Parts.

First, In the Persons and Qualities of the Conspirators.
Secondly, In the Matter conspired.
Thirdly, In the Mean and Manner of the Proceeding and Execution of the
Conspiracy.
And fourthly, Of the End and Purpose why it was so conspired.

As concerning the first, being the Persons ; they were,
Garnet, Gerrard, Tesmond, Jesuits not then taken. Thomas Winter,
Guy Fawkes, Robert Keyes, Thomas Bates, Everard Digby, Ambrose Rookwood,
John Grant, Robert Winter, at the Bar. Robert Catesby, Thomas Percy,
John Wright, Christopher Wright, slain in Rebellion. Francis Tresham,
lately dead. All grounded Romanists and corrupted Scholars of so irreligious
and traitorous a School.
As concerning the second, which is the Matter conspired; it was,

First, To deprive the King of his Crown.

Secondly, To murder the King, the Queen, and the Prince.

Thirdly, To stir Rebellion and Sedition in the Kingdom.

Fourthly, To bring a miserable Destruction amongst the Subjects.

Fifthly, To change, alter, and subvert the Religion here established.

Sixthly, To ruinate the State of the Commonwealth, and to bring
in Strangers to invade it.

As concerning the third, which is the Mean and Manner
how to compass and execute the same; they did all conclude,

First, That the King, and his People (the Papists excepted) were
Hereticks.

Secondly, That they were all cursed, and excommunicated by the
Pope.

Thirdly, That no Heretick could be King.

Fourthly, That it was lawful and meritorious to kill and destroy
the King, and all the said Hereticks.

The Mean to effect it, they concluded to be, that,

First, The King, the Queen, the Prince, the Lords Spiritual and
Temporal, the Knights and Burgesses of the Parliament, should
be blown up with Powder.

Secondly, That the whole Royal Issue Male should be destroy'd.

Thirdly, That they would take into their Custody Elizabeth
and Mary the King's Daughters, and proclaim the Lady Elizabeth
Queen.

Fourthly, That they should feign a Proclamation in the name of
Elizabeth, in which no mention should be made of Alteration
of Religion, nor that they were Parties to the Treason, until
they had raised Power to perform the same; and then to proclaim,
All Grievances in the Kingdom should be reformed.

That they also took Several Oaths, and receiv'd the Sacrament;
First, for Secrecy; Secondly, for Prosecution; except they were
discharg'd thereof by three of them.

That after the Destruction of the King, the Queen, the Prince,
the Royal Issue Male, the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, the Knights
and Burgesses, they should notify the same to foreign States;
and thereupon Sir Edmund Baynam an attainted Person of
Treason, and styling himself Prime of the damned Crew, should
be sent and make the same known to the Pope, and crave his Aid:
an Embassador fit both for the Message and Persons, to be sent
betwixt the Pope and the Devil.

That the Parliament being prorogued till the 7th of February,
they in December made a Mine under the House of Parliament,
purposing to place, their Powder there; but the Parliament being
then further adjourned till the 3d of October, they in
Lent following hired the Vault, and placed therein 20 Barrels
of Powder.

That they took to them, Robert Winter, Grant, and Rookwood,
giving them the Oaths and Sacrament as aforesaid, as to provide
Munition.

July 20.

They laid in more ten Barrels of Powder, laying upon them divers
great Bars of Iron, and pieces of Timber, and great massy Stones,
and covered the same with faggots, &c.

September 20.

They laid in more, 4 Hogsheads of Powder, with other Stores and
Bars of Iron thereupon.

November 4.

(The Parliament being prorogued to the 5th) at 11 a clock at
Night, Fawkes had prepared (by the procurement of the rest)
Touchwood and Match, to give fire to the Powder the next Day.

That the Treason being miraculously discovered, they put themselves,
and procured others to enter into open Rebellion; and gave out
most untruly, It was for that the Papists Throats were to be cut.

* Sir Edward Coke * Attor. General. It appeareth
to your Lordships, and to the rest of this most honourable and grave Assembly,
even by that which Mr. Serjeant hath already opened, that these are the
greatest treasons that ever were plotted in England, and concern
the greatest King that ever was of England. But when this Assembly
shall further hear, and see discovered the Roots and Branches of the same,
not hitherto published, they will say indeed, Quis haec posteris sic
narrare peterit, ut facta non ficta esse videantur ? That when these
things shall be related to Posterity, they will be reputed matters feigned,
not done. And therefore in this so great a Cause, upon the Carriage and
Event whereof the Eye of all Christendom is at this day bent; I shall
desire that I may with your patience be somewhat more copious, and not
so succint, as my usual manner hath been; and yet will I be no longer
than the very matter it self shall necessarily require. But before I enter
into the particular Narration of this Cause, I hold it fit to give Satisfaction
to some, and those well affected amongst us, who have not only marvelled,
but grieved, that no speedier Expedition hath been used in these Proceedings,
considering the Monstrousness and continual Horror of this so desperate
a Cause.

It is, Ordo Naturae, agreeable to the Order
of Nature, that things of great weight and magnitude should slowly proceed,
according to that of the Poet, Tarda solet magnis rebus adesse fides.
And surely of these things we may truly say, Nunquam ante dies nostros
talia acciderunt; neither hath the Eye of Man seen, nor the Ear
of Man heard the like things to these.

Veritas temporis filia, Truth is the Daughter
of Time; especially in this Case, wherein by timely and often Examinations,
First, Matters of greatest moment have been lately found out.
Secondly, Some known Offenders, and those capital, but lately,
apprehended. Thirdly, Sundry of the principal Arch-Traitors before
unknown, now manifested, as the Jesuits. Fourthly, Heretical,
treasonable and damnable Books lately found out; one of Equivocation,
and another, De officio Principis Christiani, of Francis Tresham's.

There have been already twenty and three several days
spent in Examinations.

We should otherwise have hanged a Man unattainted,
for Guy Fawkes passed for a time under the name of John Johnson:
So that if by that name greater Expedition had been made, and he hanged,
though we had not missed of the Man, yet the Proceeding would not have
been so orderly or justifiable.

The King out of his Wisdom and great Moderation, was
pleased to appoint this Trial in time of Assembly in Parliament, for
that it concerned especially those of the Parliament.

Now touching the Offences themselves, they are so exorbitant
and transcendent, and aggregated of so many bloody and fearful Crimes,
as they cannot be aggravated by any Inference, Argument or Circumstance
whatsoever; and that in three respects:

First, Because this Offence is Primæ impressionis,
and therefore sine Nomine, without any name which might be adæquatum,
sufficient to express it, given by any Legist, that ever made or writ
of any Laws. For the highest Treason that all they could imagine, they
called it only Crimen læsæ Majestatis, the violating
of the Majesty of the Prince. But this Treason doth want an apt name,
as tending not only to the Hurt, but to the Death of the King; and not
the Death of the King only, but of his whole Kingdom, Non Regis sed
Regni, that is, to the Destruction and Dissolution of the Frame and
Fabrick of this antient, famous, and ever-flourishing Monarchy; even the
Deletion of our whole Name and Nation: And therefore hold not thy tongue,
O God, keep not still silence, refrain not thy self, O God; for lo thine
Enemies make a murmuring, and they that hate thee have lift up their Heads:
They have said, Come, and let us root them out, that they be no more a
People, and that the Name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
Psal. 83. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.

Secondly, It is, Sine exemplo, beyond all
Examples, whether in Fact or Fiction, even of the tragick Poets, who did
beat their Wits to represent the most fearful and horrible Murders.

Thirdly, It is, Sine modo, without all measure
or stint of Iniquity; like a Mathematical Line, which is, divisibilis
in semper divisibilia, infinitely divisible.

It is Treason to imagine or intend the Death of the King,
Queen, or Prince.

For Treason is like a Tree whose Root is full of Poison,
and lieth secret and hid within the Earth, resembling the Imagination
of the Heart of Man, which is so secret as God only knoweth it.

Now the Wisdom of the Law provideth for the blasting and
nipping, both of the Leaves, Blossoms, and Buds which proceed from this
Root of Treason; either by Words, which are like to Leaves, or by some
overt Act, which may be resembled to Buds or Blossoms, before it cometh
to such Fruit and Ripeness, as would bring utter Destruction and Desolation
upon the whole State.

It is likewise Treason to kill the Lord Chancellor, Lord
Treasurer, or any Justice of the one Bench or other; Justices of Assize,
or any other Judge mentioned in the Statute of 25 Edw. III. sitting
in their Judicial Places, and exercising their Offices. And the Reason
is, for that every Judge so fitting by the King's Authority, representeth
the Majesty and Person of the King; and therefore it is Crimen læsæ
Majestatis, to kill him, the King being always in Judgment of Law
present in Court. But in the high Court of Parliament, every Man by virtue
of the King's Authority, by Writ under the Great Seal, hath a judicial
Place; and so consequently the killing of every of them had been a several
Treason, and Crimen læsæ Majestatis. Besides that to
their treasons were added Rebellion, Burglary, Robbery, Horse-stealing,
&c. So that this Offence is such, as no Man can express it,
No Example pattern it, no Measure contain it.

Concerning foreign Princes; there was here a Protestation
made for the clearing of them from all Imputation and Aspersion whatsoever.

First, For that whilst Kingdoms stood in Hostility,
hostile Actions are holden honourable and just.

Secondly, It is not the King's Serjeant, Attorney,
or Sollicitor, that in any sort touch or mention them: For we know that
great Princes and Personages are reverently and respectfully to be spoken
of; and that there is Lex in sermone tenenda. But it is Fawkes,
Winter, and the rest of the Offenders, that have confessed so much
as hath been said: And therefore the King's Counsel Learned doth but repeat
the Offender's Confession, and charge or touch no other Person. They have
also slander'd unjustly our great Master King James, which we only
repeat, to shew the Wickedness and Malice of the Offenders.

Thirdly, So much as is said concerning foreign
Princes, is so woven into the matter of the Charge of these Offenders,
as it cannot be sever'd, or singled from the rest of the matter; so as
it is inevitable, and cannot be pretermitted.

Now as this Powder-Treason is in itself prodigious and
unnatural, so it is in the Conception and Birth most monstrous, as arising
out of the dead Ashes of former Treasons. For it had three Roots, all
planted and watered by Jesuits, and English Romish Catholicks:
The first Root in England, in December and March;
the second in F1anders, in June; the third in Spain,
in July. In England it had two Branches, one in December
was twelve Months before the death of the late Queen of blessed Memory;
another in March wherein she died.

First in December, Anno Dom. 1601. do Henry
Garnet Superior of the Jesuits in England, Robert Tesmond
Jesuit, Robert Catesby (who was bono subacto & versuto ingenio
& profunda perfidia) together with Francis Tresham and
others, in the names, and for the behalf of all the English Romish
Catholicks, imploy Thomas Winter into Spain, as for the
general good of the Romish Catholick Cause; and by him doth Garnet
write his Letters to Father Creswell, Jesuit residing in Spain,
in that behalf. With Thomas Winter doth Tesmond, alias Greeneway
the Jesuit, go as an Associate and Confederate in that Conspiracy. The
Message (which was principally committed unto the said Winter)
was, that he should make a Proposition and Request to the King of Spain,
in the behalf and names of the English Catholicks, That the King
would send an Army hither into England, and that the Forces of
the Catholicks in England should be prepared to join with him,
and do him Service. And further, that he should move the King of Spain
to bestow some Pensions here in England, upon sundry Persons Catholicks,
and devoted to his Service: And moreover, to give Advertisement, that
the said King of Spain, making use of the general Discontentment
that young Gentlemen and Soldiers were in, might no doubt, by relieving
their Necessities, have them all at his Devotion.

And because that in all Attempts upon England,
the greatest Difficulty was ever to be found to be the Transportation
of Horses; the Catholicks in England would assure the King of Spain
to have always in readiness for his Use and Service, 1500 or 2000 Horses,
against any occasion or enterprize. Now Thomas Winter undertaking
this Negotiation, and with Tesmond the Jesuit coming into Spain,
by means of Father Creswell the Legier Jesuit there, as hath been
said, had readily Speech with Don Pedro Francesa second Secretary
of State, to whom he imparted his Message, as also to the Duke of Lerma;
who assured him, that it would be an Office very grateful to his Master,
and that it should not want his best Furtherance.

Concerning the Place for landing of the King of Spain's
Army, which from the English Romish Catholicks he desired might
be sent to invade the Land; it was resolved, That if the Army were great,
then Essex and Kent were judged fittest, (where note by
the way, Who was then Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports :) If the Army were
small, and trusted upon Succour in England, then Milford-haven
was thought more convenient.

Now there being at that time Hostility betwixt both Kingdoms,
the King of Spain willingly embraced the Motion, saying, that he
took the Message from the Catholicks very kindly, and that in all things
he would respect them with as great Care as his proper Castilians.
But for his further answer, and full dispatch, Thomas Winter was
appointed to attend the Progress. In the end whereof, being in Summer
time, Count Miranda gave him this answer in the behalf of his Master,
That the King would bestow 100000 Crowns to that use, half to be paid
that Year, and the rest the next Spring following; and withal required
that we should be as good as our Promise, for the next Spring he meant
to be with us, and set foot in England. And lastly, he desired
on the King's behalf, of Winter, that he might have certain Advertisement
and Intelligence, if so it should in the mean time happen that the Queen
did die. Tho. Winter laden with these Hopes, returns into England
about a Month before Christmas, and delivered answer of all that
had passed, to Henry Garnet, Robert Catesby, and Francis Tresham.
But soon after set that glorious Light, her Majesty died: Mira cano;
Sol occubuit, Nox nulla secuta est.

Presently after whose Death was Christopher Wright,
another Messenger sent over into Spain by Garnet, (who likewise
did write by him to Creswell, for the furtherance of the Negotiation)
Catesby and Tresham, in the name and behalf of all the Romish
Catholicks in England; as well to carry News of her Majesty's Death,
as also to continue the aforesaid Negotiation for an Invasion and Pensions,
which by Tho. Winter had before been dealt in. And in the Spanish
Court, about two Months after his arrival there, doth Christopher Wright
meet with Guy Fawkes; who upon the 22d of June was employed
out of Flanders from Brussels by Sir William Stanley,
Hugh Owen, (whose Finger hath been in every Treason which hath been
of late Years detected) and Baldwyn the Legier Jesuit in Flanders;
from whom likewise the said Fawkes carried Letters to Creswell
in Spain, for the countenancing and furtherance of his Affairs.

Now the End of Fawkes's imployment was, to give
Advertisement to the King of Spain, how the King of England
was like to proceed rigorously with the Catholicks, and to run the same
course which the late Queen did; and withal to intreat that it would please
him to send an Army into England to Milford-haven, where
the Romish Catholicks would be ready to assist him; and then the Forces
that should be transported in Spinola's Gallies, should be landed
where they could most conveniently. And these their several Messages